IAM in BKK

Actionscript displacement

I recently came across this really cool effect and tried to do something similar.

import flash.filters.DisplacementMapFilter;
import flash.display.*;
import flash.geom.Matrix;
import flash.geom.Point;
import flash.events.Event;
 
import caurina.transitions.Tweener;
import caurina.transitions.properties.*;
caurina.transitions.properties.FilterShortcuts.ini  t();
caurina.transitions.properties.DisplayShortcuts.in  it();
;
FilterShortcuts.init();
 
background.y = - 300;
var init:Function = function(): void {
        var map:BitmapData = new BitmapData (this.sourceMap.width, this.sourceMap.height, false, 0x00808080);
        map.draw(this.sourceMap);
        this.sourceMap.visible = false;
 
        var dmf:DisplacementMapFilter = new DisplacementMapFilter(map, null, 2, 1, 200, 200, "color", 0x000000, 0);
        var pt:Point = new Point(0, this.sourceMap.height - 500);
        dmf.mapPoint = pt;
        this.background.filters = [dmf];
 
        Tweener.addTween(this.background, {y:0, transition:"easeOutQuart", time:2});
        Tweener.addTween(this.background, {_DisplacementMap_mapPoint_x:0, _DisplacementMap_mapPoint_y:200, _DisplacementMap_scaleX:0, _DisplacementMap_scaleY:0, transition:"linear", time:1.5});
};
 
this.init();

10 Commandments of good design

Read them.. memorize them or print them…

10 Commandments of good design by Dieter Rams

1. Good design is innovative
2. Good design makes a product useful
3. Good design is asthetic
4. Good design helps a product to be understood
5. Good design is unobtrusive
6. Good design is honest
7. Good design is durable
8. Good design is thorough to the last detail
9. Good design is concerned with the enviroment
10. Good design is as little design as possible

Slideshows made easy

I just stumbled upon this service 280 slides which really works amazing. Especially the media search is really usefull, search in flickr and yourube to put directly into your presentation

Time to ditch powerpoint and hats off to this new web application, you can try out the demo here:
http://280slides.com/Editor/

Sitemaps made easy

Everyone involved in the web biz has probably been there creating a sitemap for yourself or a client. While there are applications out there like Visio and Smartdraw these are more complex then need to be and expensive.

I have been used writemaps for almost a year ago when they just launched and it is a great tool to use easy and fast. The only downside is that it does have some bugs creating larger sitemaps.

Anyway it’s a usefull and free tool to use in your arsenal so go and check it out

http://writemaps.com

Tags: sitemaps

Canonical tag, avoiding duplicate content

Google, Yahoo and Live search have agreed on a cannonical tag for SEO this solves allot of issues that can be pretty hard to solve.

How to use this tag, well it’s pretty easy put:

<link rel="canonical" href="http://mydomain/my/preferred/url" />

In the head of your document and the search engines will give a preference to this URL.

More information on the canonical tag

Tags: Duplicate content, SEO

Dancing shrimp

A few weeks ago I had the chance to try the delicious delicacy of dancing shrimps. These are live shrimps just sprayed with lemon when you open the plate they shrimps will dance all over the table, but this is not where the name comes from… The name comes from the shrimps dancing in your mouth when you eat them. Whenever in Thailand don’t forget to miss this feast for the tongue ^_^

Optimize your JS / CSS

Most developers are now aware of the fabulour ySlow from Yahoo the tool to check how to improve your loading times for your website, but I did not hear about rockstarapps before. This is a great tool to fix some of the problems that ySlow points out it can compress and merge javascript and css files with one simple click.

TNT Newyears party 2009

Here are the pics from the late newyears pool party @ tnt… It was very fun just finished too early ^_^ Hope to be there for the next year.

Thailand internet expo 2009

This weekend was the first thailand internet expo in paragon.. It was ok.. i couldn’t attend any of the seminars because they where all in thai but thank god we still have the pictures the rest will follow taken with a better camera:)

MTS Graph

Today I finished adding some new features to the MTS Gold chart.. now it supports yearly, monthy and daily data. Note that the data in the screenshots is just sample data and not complete